Motivational Quotes

Art

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

- Motherwell, Robert

Best Quotes about Art

Where are you searching for me, friend? Look! Here am I right within you. Not in temple, nor in mosque, not in Kaaba nor Kailas, but here right within you am I.

Kabir

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

David Cronenberg

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host.

Parker, Dorothy

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, love the reeling midnight through, for tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)

Parker, Dorothy

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

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Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooker

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I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.

Duke Ellington

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Breton, Andre

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The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

Klee, Paul

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Art is a form of catharsis.

Parker, Dorothy

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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

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I am an artist I am here to live out loud.

Zola, Emile

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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure

Baryshnikov, Mikhail

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I will soon be going out to shape all the singing tomorrows.

Peri, Gabriel

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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

Yu Cao

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There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.

Paglia, Camille

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Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Parker, Theodore

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As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Bayley, Stephen

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Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.

Ciardi, John

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Photography, fortunately, to me has not only been a profession but also a contact between people - to understand human nature and record, if possible, the best in each individual.

Nickolas Muray

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Whether joy or sorrowful, the heart needs a double, because a joy shared is doubled and a pain that is shared is divided.

Ruckett

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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?

Jafar

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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Pablo Picasso

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Contrary to popular belief an artist is never ahead of his time, but most people are far behind theirs.

Varese, Edward

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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

Reinhardt, Ad

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The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

Smith, Dean

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The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, while the heart of the fool is in the house of entertainment.

Bible

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There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its truth. Thus, from the standpoint of the work and its worth it is irrelevant to which political ideas the artist as a citizen claims allegiance, which ideas he would like to serve with his work or whether he holds any such ideas at all.

Havel, Vaclav

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Fortunately art is a community effort --a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.

Ginsberg, Allen

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Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.

Cassady, Neal

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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

Wilde, Oscar

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Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

John Singer Sargent

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Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Frye, Northrop

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Art is the only thing that can go on mattering, once it has stopped hurting.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.

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There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

Matisse, Henri

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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Berle, Adolf

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Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For this is the Nature of Light and the way of the children.

Vaughan, Thomas

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Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.

Driscoll, Louise

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With an apple I will astonish Paris.

Cezanne, Paul